History of Stirlingshire. Corrected and brought down to the present time by W.M. Stirling, Volume 1 |
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Page 295 - We cam' na here to view your warks, In hopes to be mair wise; But only, lest we gang to hell, It may be nae surprise. But when we tirl'd at your door, Your porter dought na hear us ; Sae may, should we to hell's yetts come, Your billy Satan sair us.
Page 59 - the obstacles of such a, splendid enterprise : his was " A frame of adamant, a soul of fire ; No dangers fright him, and no labours tire.
Page 190 - in rifted rocks. Oh, had you seen her last despairing look ! Upon the brink she stood, and cast her eyes Down on the deep ' then lifting up her head And her white hands to heaven, seeming to say, Why am I forced to this
Page 157 - the saids parties consent to the registration hereof in the books of council and session, or others competent, that letters of horning on six days,
Page 198 - That if it had pleased God that these two rivers should have been navigable, He would not have wanted human assistance to have made them such ; but, as He had not done it, it was plain He did not think it proper that it should be done. To attempt it, therefore, would be to violate the
Page 325 - mordant" is applied to certain substances with which the cloth to be dyed must be impregnated, otherwise the colouring matters would not adhere to the cloth, but would be removed by washing. Thus the red colour given to cotton by madder would not be fixed unless the cloth were previously steeped in a solution of salt of alumina.
Page 287 - form, the subject of an old Scottish ballad :— " It was at dinner as they sat, And when they drank the wine, How joyful were laird and lady Of bonnie Waristoun ! " But he has spoken a word in jest; Her answer was not guid ; And he has thrown a plate at her, That made her mouth
Page 190 - in which the heroic incidents of the leap are fully and vigorously told. " She ran, she flew like lightning up the hill, Nor halted till the precipice she gained, Beneath whose low'ring top the river falls
Page 155 - and that at two terms of the year, Whitsunday and Martinmas, by equal portions, beginning the first term's payment thereof at the
Page 77 - the person to whom the title of great man is more justly due, than to any other whom his country ever produced.